Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor and Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Restructuring Committee, yesterday, criticised Northerners who are opposed to restructuring of the country, saying they were doing so for selfish reasons.
El-Rufai also said the draft bill produced on restructuring by his committee in January 2018 was stepped down for fear of politicization, ahead of 2019 general elections. His comments drew the ire of Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, and its counterpart in the South-East, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, who described it as a ploy to hoodwink Nigerians. But the Governor pointed out that there was a difference between the position of Northern Elders Forum, NEF, against restructuring and northerners as a people. He argued that there were over one hundred million Northerners whose interests were at stake, maintaining that whatever advantages an individual was getting for himself did not apply directly to the entire North.
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